Read full poem →Her own fair head, and sallying thro’ the gate,
Hfad beat her foes with slaughter from the walls.
Dictionary Entry
The killing of animals, generally for food.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. slaughterhouse slaughterhouses slaughterslaughter greatslaughter wholesaleslaughter massslaughter terrible
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Poetry examples for “slaughter”
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Read full poem →With tilt and tourney ; then the tale of her
That drove her foes with slaughter from her walls,
And much I praised her nobleness, and “ Where,”
Read full poem →As it will be in all the times to come:
Slaughter on slaughter, blood for blood, and death,
For ever, ever, ever, evermore!
Read full poem →But did you not so envy[363] Cepheus' daughter,
For her ill-beauteous mother judged to slaughter.
'Tis not enough, she shakes your record off,
Read full poem →iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
Read full poem →And cries for more and more
Slaughter of forests up and down the river
And along the lake's shore.
Read full poem →And full three hundred beside, they say, --
Revelling on for the lone, cold slaughter
So soon to seize them and hide them for aye;
Read full poem →Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.
Read full poem →EXPEDITION OF 8TANDISH TO WEYMOUTH. — DARING POLICY.
— SLAUGHTER OF THE CONSPIRING INDIANS. — THE COL-
ONY OF WESTON BROKEN UP. PRIVATIONS AND SUF-